Electric Eye
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Lol. WTF are they thinking? It's over, McConnell has already been humiliated every wich way by both his president and the democrats teaming up and dp'ng him into submission. Shits sailed yo.
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Lol. WTF are they thinking? It's over, McConnell has already been humiliated every wich way by both his president and the democrats teaming up and dp'ng him into submission. Shits sailed yo.
whyamihere
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I'm fairly confident we'll win the NH House next year. It's just too vulnerable to swings to be effectively gerrymandered.
I love Taniel at DKE but I'm getting sort of sick of the response to this being "MAYBE IT'S A TRAP"
Not everything is 19th Dimensional Chess.
I love Taniel at DKE but I'm getting sort of sick of the response to this being "MAYBE IT'S A TRAP"
Not everything is 19th Dimensional Chess.
Box of Kittens
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Also Democrats have won the popular vote in six of the past seven elections. It's kind of like a mirror image of 1968-1988 when Republicans won five of six presidential elections but Democrats controlled the House the entire time.
It's certainly not a perfect analogy. The existence of Dixiecrats meant that Democratic majorities in the House back then often existed only on paper, particularly in the early part of the Reagan administration. Also only four of our six popular vote victories have actually translated into Democratic presidencies.
EDIT - Well, Aaron beat me to the punch.
balladofwindfishes
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It's interesting how the Senate was designed to be slow moving with stable leadership, while the House was meant to swing back and forth at the whim of the country, and yet it's mostly been the opposite since as far back as I know.
I wonder if it's the 17th Amendment that caused that, or just poor government design.
whyamihere
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Looks like another Dem flip in OK
https://www.ok.gov/elections/support/ok_results_seb.html#REP
On my phone but I'll look at more when I get to my computer
https://www.ok.gov/elections/support/ok_results_seb.html#REP
On my phone but I'll look at more when I get to my computer
I think the Senate is just easier to flip because there are just so fewer races. So, barring a crazy maxed out map like 2018, you just successfully target 3 or 4 races and you can swing it the other way.
AntraxSuicide
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You can't convince me that he isn't touching himself in this picture.
With 4 precincts left, Dems at 61%, Republicans at 39%.
This is a suburban Oklahoma City seat.
Box of Kittens
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Mark Andrew
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Dont have the numbers in front of me, does anyone know how this tracks with special election swings from earlier in the year?
VendettaRed07
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Franken also cosponsoring the Healthcare bill if it hasn't been mentioned
whyamihere
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These are both gigantic swings.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1C2MVeM2K7WgqmJw5RCQbWyTo2u73CX1pI8zw_G-7BJo/edit#gid=0
I think the only one that goes against the trend revently is that one in Rhode Island. I believe the Democratic incumbent resigned in shame and the Republican challenger had a strong showing in 2014. So candidate quality matters.
They probably think that they have it worse than minorities right now and this means they get some obamaphones now.
Well at least they all agreed on something I guess. Crazy that they're more averse to climate change than racial equality though.
shinra-bansho
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So. Open question. When the GOP smear machine gets into gear and starts pushing the narrative that the Democrats want to raise your white people taxes to pay for black people healthcare and take away your employer plan so that they can give healthcare to welfare queens and Mexican rapists and their anchor babies...
What is the response? If any.
What is the response? If any.
Bonen no Max'd
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I think that puts it at 14 senators now, another 11 and it'll have similar levels of support as the Conyers' bill does in the House.
whyamihere
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Have more babies than them.
Yeah but at least we're not Nazis
Get Yellen to deliberately send us into a mild recession to further depress GOP turnout?
whyamihere
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Now on to MS to break the GOP supermajority.
BoogieWoogie
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By the time you even start talking, Trump is going to walk out with his dick out while sending nuclear launch codes to Putin or something.
Random Human
They were trying to grab your prize. They work for the mercenary. The masked man.
Promise a constitutional amendment protecting peanut butter.
It's looking like a no go on that one.
Dubbedinenglish
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Ban cars?
That's a private position
whyamihere
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Yeah but the Democrat got almost half the amount of votes as the leading Republican. Plus she's like some 27 year old rando. Sorry.
Aaron Strife
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It's going to a runoff.
This one had some serious DLCC investment so maybe they'll double down here.
Man this SC. Decisions like this make me worried about how Kennedy will vote in the Wisconsin case.
SpaceCadetKeon
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Goddammit. Thanks a lot, SCROTUS.
whyamihere
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There was no chance that Kennedy wouldn't reverse on a stay even if he would strike down the maps.
Fancyarcher
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Dammit!
balladofwindfishes
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Don't these stays generally have very little to do with the way they would rule?
I really doubt Ginsburg votes for the Muslim ban, for example.
Dubbedinenglish
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I've underestimated WOKE Clarence Thomas
Autodidact
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And another teacher flips a Trump district here in Oklahoma.
The OK Democratic Party would be foolish not to run on education next year, especially with many schools resorting to four-day weeks.
No, I haven't met Rosecrants, though I know people who know him. OK education epitomizes the term "small pond."
When I run for something, I'll give all of you some sort of signal - probably the words "moderate" and "darling" used in close proximity.
The OK Democratic Party would be foolish not to run on education next year, especially with many schools resorting to four-day weeks.
No, I haven't met Rosecrants, though I know people who know him. OK education epitomizes the term "small pond."
When I run for something, I'll give all of you some sort of signal - probably the words "moderate" and "darling" used in close proximity.
VendettaRed07
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And it's funny how we re still being told " we shouldn't have to join the Paris climate deal because china is doing nothing"
Snowman Prophet of Doom
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She lost against the most hated candidate in modern Presidential history, mostly.
shinra-bansho
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Well that and her vajayjay. But then her vajayjay is also part of why she lost.
Fixed that for you.
Aaron Strife
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Democrats making for a competitive gubernatorial race in Oklahoma would be something, although not unprecedented - I believe they won the governor's seat in 2006 and even held a majority in the State Senate (not sure about the House).
Could be quite similar to Kansas which would have flipped blue in 2014 if voters didn't suddenly decide that Ebola was the most important issue.
Deuce Deuce
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Looking like a washed up Henry Hill in Goodfellas.
I'm more surprised Kennedy didn't do the right thing? I thought he wasn't pleased with the way districting has been going down?
Autodidact
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Scruffy Daddy Mitt or Corporate Ken Doll Mitt?
https://twitter.com/JoshMBlackman/status/907778355012960256
I mean, that "almost" is the kicker (like it is in every sentence it's in), but still...
I mean, that "almost" is the kicker (like it is in every sentence it's in), but still...
He's got the case tailor made for him coming up, he probably doesn't want any rulings getting in the way of him being able to make a decision on it.
Ziltoidia 9
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It just amazes me that fox still talks about her god damn emails. They will be still in 3 years.
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